U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus and Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad did not relay “direct threats” to Lebanese officials but rather “advices and veiled diplomatic warnings,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

Rashad, who played a key role in reaching the Gaza truce, explained to President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam the efforts that have been exerted regarding Gaza, expressing Egyptian readiness to play an essential role in the Lebanese crisis, informed sources told the daily.

Arab League chief Ahmed Abul Gheit has held talks in Baabda with President Joseph Aoun.

“The meeting with the president involved an analysis of the regional, international and Lebanese situations and I sensed that President Aoun is confident that things in Lebanon are going in the right direction. He also has confidence in the country’s future,” Abul Gheit said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri is confident that "there will be no war" on Lebanon.

He told al-Joumhouria newspaper, in remarks published Wednesday, that he is not worried about the possibility of an Israeli all-out war against Lebanon. "There won't be a war, the atmosphere is positive, and I'm reassured at this stage," he said.

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri considered that the boycott of a legislative session on Tuesday was not an achievement but an "illusion of victory" as the laws that were to be discussed in the session were not "for his personal interest" but for the public benefit.

"If they don't want to pass the laws, then so much the worse for them," the Speaker told local al-Joumhouria newspaper.

If the Lebanese government fails to disarm Hezbollah, there will be no escape from carrying out a focused and targeted operation against the group's sites, Israel Hayom said Tuesday, quoting officials.

The Israeli daily estimated that Hezbollah possesses "only about 10,000 rockets", compared to the approximately 120,000 it possessed on the eve of the last war.

Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday adjourned a legislative session due to lack of quorum, after the Lebanese Forces, the Kataeb Party and their allies boycotted in rejection of Berri’s refusal to put on the agenda a bill allowing expats to vote for all 128 seas in the upcoming parliamentary elections.

The LF had said that participation in the session it would reflect “submission to Speaker Nabih Berri’s hegemony over parliament.”

Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Mahmoud Rashad met Tuesday in Lebanon with President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri.

The Presidency said Aoun and Egypt’s intelligence head discussed “how to leverage the atmosphere of the Gaza deal and the Sharm el-Sheikh summit to expand it to include Lebanon.”

U.S. envoy Morgan Ortagus on Tuesday held meetings with President Joseph Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri and was scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.

A Presidency statement said Aoun emphasized the need to activate the work of the Mechanism ceasefire monitoring committee, especially in terms of “halting the continuous Israeli attacks on Lebanon and implementing Resolution 1701 in the South to enable the Lebanese Army to complete its deployment up to the southern international border.”

The Syrian interior ministry said Tuesday it seized about 11 million captagon pills in the southern countryside of Homs.

The pills were smuggled in a car coming from Lebanon, Syria's national news agency said.

Hezbollah smuggled hundreds of rockets from Syria to Lebanon over the past months and the Israeli army only managed to thwart some of the shipments, the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation said.

Israel has informed Washington of the details of the smuggling operations and its need to “maintain attacks on Lebanon,” the report added.